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If you can't manage to occupy yourself Web surfing, e-mailing or listening to tunes on your iPhone, EA Mobile has just announced a raft of games for the iPod touch and the iPhone. Phone games have become a real phenomenon as more and more mobile devices have enough screen real estate and processing power to become a viable game platform. The EA announcement Friday focused on the release of Spore Origins for the Apple mobile market, but the company also released details of nine other upcoming mobile game titles.

Mobile Spore Origins

Lugging around a big-screen MacBook Pro or other large laptop to the local wireless hot spot may give you a great visual experience on the road, but it is so heavy it could also give you a bad back.

Enough people feel that way that computer makers are sensing a market opening for smaller laptops. A number have jumped in with what they are calling ultraminiature PCs or mininotebooks.